artwork: fake smiles and lullabies by Liliana Sanches



there was a time
when I believed
age was merely a number

and then I grew
…aged beyond my dreams
saw myself as some woman
in a plain without thunder

I painted the dirt green
fooling grass into the eye

I smoothed the sand clean
pretending life could not lie

but in the end
as my number grew
I learned with deep sadness

others need for me
decreased, as the past
passed by me, in
uneven handness

© 2007 sara coslett